By the end of the episode, we've been made aware, yet again, of the awe and terror of national security as it intersects with the bumbling humanity of our leaders.
(Rosenberg) Museum of Modern Art: 'Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception' (through Aug. 1) This possibly premature, hit-and-miss survey of the quixotic, politically aware yet obstinately poetic art of this Belgian artist, who has lived in Mexico since 1986, whipsaws a visitor between engagement and boredom, serious consideration and dismissal.
(Johnson) Museum of Modern Art: 'Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception' (closes on Monday) This possibly premature, hit-and-miss survey of the quixotic, politically aware yet obstinately poetic art of this Belgian artist, who has lived in Mexico since 1986, whipsaws a visitor between engagement and boredom, serious consideration and dismissal.
(Johnson 20110616 Museum of Modern Art: 'Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception' (through Aug. 1) This possibly premature, hit-and-miss survey of the quixotic, politically aware, yet obstinately poetic art of this Belgian artist, who has lived in Mexico since 1986, whipsaws a visitor between engagement and boredom, serious consideration and dismissal.
The possibly premature, hit-and-miss survey of Francis Alys's quixotic, politically aware, yet obstinately poetic art at the Museum of Modern Art pretty much covers the neo-Conceptual waterfront, from the ridiculous to the sublime, and the slight to the resonant.
On this side of the Severn at the southern end of the Cotswolds, I have not been aware, yet, of any wild boar, but have been concerned about the number of dead badgers - victims of traffic accidents - which are allowed to lie too long beside the road.
It's not self-aware yet, it doesn't know it's becoming annoying.
His latest work delves into family deaths and trauma, moving from countrified swoon to ironic flail to self-aware, yet nostalgic, regret.
Angelina Jolie Pitt is poised and self-aware, yet she pulls a face when I ask whether her kids think she's cool.
But the playing in general was passionately good, and the performance was a valuable reminder, in a week full of thinking about Mahler's legacy, that his works — self-aware yet sincere; eclectic and emotional — remain uncanny premonitions of our contemporary sensibilities.
The exhibition text describes Yang's subjects as, "bad-assed and self-aware, yet insecure, vulnerable and torn, with a supreme sense of cool.
